I wouldn’t intentionally hurt anyone in this whole world. I wouldn’t hurt them physically or emotionally, how then can people so consistently do it to me?
BEATRICE SPARKSMy biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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She didn’t know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.
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I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books.
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Maybe the new me will be different.
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This morning when I left Mom’s parting words were, “Come straight home after school.” Wow! Like I’m going to get stoned at 3:30—it doesn’t sound so bad at that.
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Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
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Sometimes I think we’re all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don’t like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don’t want to be a robot!
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Even my parents treat me like I’m stupid and inferior and ever short. I guess I’ll never measure up to anyone’s expectations. I surely don’t measure up to what I’d like to be.
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They don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,” always “self-centered” and everything else that’s negative and destructive.
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They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!
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Lying – remembering beauty in truth.
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I’m afraid to live and afraid to die.
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The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus “Not me! I didn’t think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.
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Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
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